Bradley’s Bracket Fiasco: The champ sits in Tech’s regional
Greensboro, N.C. — Bradley’s Bracket Fiasco, now in its 23rd years, begins with an assessment of Georgia Tech: It got in, which is good; it got in the absolute toughest regional, which is less good. I’ve been thinking all season the Jackets have Final Four capability. Alas, I can’t see the No. 10 seed emerging from the mighty Midwest.
Then again, I’ve been wrong before, and I’m sure I’ll be wrong about 95 percent of these NCAA tournament picks. As ever, I invite you to play along in our online contest. The Fiasco prize is the accustomed and coveted Final Four sweatshirt, but this year if you enter our contest you’ll be automatically enrolled in a national pick-’em and you’ll have a chance to win $1 million.
You can enter the Fiasco by clicking here. And Fiasco rules can be found here.
OK, my picks. (I know you’re getting anxious.) Ohio State might be the only team in the country that can beat Kansas on a neutral floor, and somewhere the two got jammed into the same regional. I like the Jackets to get by Oklahoma State in the first round — I recall Tech beating the Cowboys in the Big Dance not long ago — but see the Jackets’ run ending there. The Buckeyes will take them down in Round 2, and the winner of the KU-OSU regional final in St. Louis will claim the national championship.
To the West: The temptation is great to pick Florida State, somehow only a No. 9 seed, over Syracuse in Round 2, but the Seminoles don’t make enough jump shots to beat the Orange zone. This tepid region will spawn a slew of upsets. (Try Murray State over Vanderbilt. Or BYU over Kansas State in Round 2. Or sixth-seeded Xavier reaching the regional final.) But nobody out here is beating the ‘Cuse.
Another great regional final looms in the East: Kentucky versus West Virginia. I’m intrigued by No. 3 seed New Mexico — former Jacket Craig Neal is Steve Alford’s chief assistant — but that’s the only team capable of spoiling the Wildcat/Mountaineer border war. On toughness and seasoning, I like the Mountaineers. What I don’t like: Two really good upset choices — No. 12 Cornell and No. 13 Wofford — are stuffed into the same subregional. (But don’t be shocked when Wofford reaches the Sweet Sixteen.)
In the South, Duke got a nice seed but an awful draw. The Blue Devils be oustedin Round 2 by Louisville, which is coached by Rick Pitino, who nearly eliminated Mike Krzyzewski’s best team 18 years ago but neglected to guard the inbounder. Here’s guessing he will this time. I’m also guessing the South final will be an all-Big East convocation, with Villanova — which hasn’t played well lately but landed a No. 2 seed in the softest region — skipping past Pitino’s Cards.
So that makes three Big East reps in the Final Four, none of which will win the NCAA title. West Virginia will reach the title game, where it will be undone by … drum roll, please … Kansas. Ohio State is playing beautifully and Evan Turner has been the nation’s MVP, but the Jayhawks have been the most consistent team all season. They have everything you need to win: Point guard in Sherron Collins, big man in Cole Aldrich, coach in Bill Self.
It’s against my nature ever to go with the chalk, but this time I am. I’m going with rock-chalkers. I’m going with KU. (Even though I swore years ago I’d never ever pick Kansas again. Consistency, I say, is the hobgoblin of small minds. And lousy brackets.)
And now I await your picks. Please enter. Please check your brackets often. And please don’t make too many unkind remarks about my picks. I get mighty sensitive this time of year.
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147 comments Add your comment
dawgfan
March 14th, 2010
7:33 pm
1st
Mark Bradley
March 14th, 2010
7:34 pm
Kudos, dawgfan.
MagnaCarterGT
March 14th, 2010
7:34 pm
Kudos, dawgfan.
Can’t see Tech getting past the second round, if they get there. I can see them beating OK State, but not OH State.
WHITEANDGOLD
March 14th, 2010
7:36 pm
I agree Mark. I like Kansas in this tournament. Tech has a great shot vs Ok St but could be in trouble vs Ohio St. Kansas has the total package and i just don’t see anybody beating them.
WOW
March 14th, 2010
7:40 pm
GT IS IRRLEVANT 30-24 …WHERE THE HECK IS SAINT SIMONS THESE DAYS
aztec
March 14th, 2010
7:41 pm
SDSU will take down the vols
StraightJacket
March 14th, 2010
7:44 pm
Kansas will be the only Number one seed in the Final Four.
Ozzy
March 14th, 2010
7:52 pm
THAT’S CUTE. A GEORGIA FAN TALKING ABOUT IRRELEVANCY, AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SPELL IRRELEVANT. IRRLEVANT, REALLY?
YOU JUST CAN’T HIDE THAT UGA EDUCATION. IT ALWAYS SHINES THROUGH.
WHAT A DORK!
eddiedawg
March 14th, 2010
7:54 pm
@WOW-
St Simons is in the fetal position with Yellowfuzz. And you forgot 73-66. Oh and Tech blows-go Cowboys.
eddiedawg
March 14th, 2010
7:55 pm
Hey Ozzy-I can spell this:
WE RUN THIS STATE.
JSS
March 14th, 2010
7:56 pm
If you’re putting faith in Ohio State, you’re 3 years too late! Michigan should have beat them… Aztec is right by the way… Kansas is another Ok. State beat down waiting to happen!
Mark Bradley
March 14th, 2010
7:56 pm
OK, folks. I believe the Fiasco link has gone live, as we say. Please enter the contest. Please please please.
Mark Bradley
March 14th, 2010
7:57 pm
And, after nine hours at the Greensboro Coliseum, I’m about to hit the road. I’ll check in later. Thanks for hanging with me all weekend. It’s been a blast.
scott
March 14th, 2010
7:58 pm
This will be the most difficult final four to get right that I can remember. so much upset potential that it’s ridiculous. I dont think Ohio State makes the final four. The big ten as a whole has consisted of extremely uneven play this year.
Ozzy
March 14th, 2010
7:58 pm
Very Good Eddie!! If I could put a smiley face on your paper I would.
You’re really coming along with your school work!
A+
SLP
March 14th, 2010
8:03 pm
Hey, Ozzy – Shut up. Are you sure you’re not Paul Johnson’s lap dog? The Dawgs whip your A$$ at everything so just shut up and get over it.
TomB
March 14th, 2010
8:04 pm
Hey Mark, have you read Forde’s ESPN article on Hewitt and Tech? Glad someone else can see the obvious.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/champweek2010/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=4993108
Dawg Stephen
March 14th, 2010
8:04 pm
WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!
You have to REGISTER and play the game, but you dont have to REGISTER to be a poster on the stupid message boards here? That’s what makes these message boards a JOKE, and a TRAGEDY for a horrible idea….open forum….STUPID!!! I am writing this in hopes of a lifetime ban, the AJC is a joke and so are these message boards. The lack of accountability is why these message boards cannot be taken seriously and do far more damage to any college kids or potential student atheletes who cant weed out the idiocy. Goodbye.
Everybody Knows
March 14th, 2010
8:06 pm
Everybody knows that 99% of Dawg fans didn’t go to UGA. Or even finish high school for that matter.
Rock On.......
March 14th, 2010
8:06 pm
It is unfathomable that a team could finish 10-6 in the ACC tied for 3rd with 23 total wins only 8 losses and not go dancing. I am certain, knowing John Swofford, that he is absolutely beside himself. The ACC must go to a balanced schedule in my opinion and have the automatic bid awarded to the regular season champ.
The Acc tourney has totally lost it’s luster. Check the stands. In addition it was said by most pundits that the only team that had anything to gain from the tourney was GT playing their wayin. Kudos to my Jackets by the way. The tourney is fine but not to determine a true champion. It is sad to see what the tourney has become really.
I don’t see Kansas overcoming being seated in the hardest bracket. Too many upsets await and Kansas should fall. Agree about Duke losing in 2nd round. No way should Duke have been ranked 3 overall.
BPhil
March 14th, 2010
8:06 pm
Safe travels back to Atlanta, Mark.
Jackets2010
March 14th, 2010
8:07 pm
You do run this state.
That’s why with Sonny we’re a billion in the hole.
And I want to help our ruling Dawgs so much that I’m buying exactly nothin.
Good luck with closing schools and foreclosed Dawgs fans.
I’d like to help but u talked me out of it.
GT GRAD
March 14th, 2010
8:09 pm
The powers that be have been trying to diminish the strength of the ACC for years now (look at the limited number of ACC teams in the dance and look at the tough draw the ACC teams get each and every year).
They have obviously been trying to build the Big East up for several years……………..Big East has some good teams, but MANY of the “Big East” conference wins are meaningless because the conference has so many soft teams at the bottom half of the standings (how many teams are now in the Big East – about 37??).
Sad Sad Sad state of affairs………………………why not just be fair to all of the teams and spread the talented teams evenly throughout each region?
Cousin Vicker
March 14th, 2010
8:10 pm
I care only about beating the great Elizabeth Bradley this year. I think I’m due!
We Ruin This State
March 14th, 2010
8:13 pm
WOW, SLP, eddiemutt,
Your beloved leghumpers beat Tech in football and basketball. Guess what it got you this year? Shreveport and well, nothing! As WOW put it, UGA is “IRRLEVANT”[sic] in both football and basketball this year!
LMAO. You mutts enjoy filling out your brackets and pulling against Tech. We don’t have to pull against the Dawgs because you folks don’t have a dog in this hunt! LMAO
Susan not Steve
March 14th, 2010
8:15 pm
Mary not Mark, its okay Mr/Miss Mark/Mary Bradley make the change your fans will stick with you like glue- our bond is as strong as your homer love for the jackets…..
Pi$$onaDawg
March 14th, 2010
8:18 pm
Dawg fans ain’t if great cheering for Okie State. Well the jackets will beat them for you dawgs.
panthers
March 14th, 2010
8:19 pm
love all the pathetic jealous dogs on this blog. congrats to the jackets – make the state proud of you.
eddiedawg
March 14th, 2010
8:21 pm
HEY OZZY-
I am a math wiz too.
My favorite formula is 30-24.
Eat it.
Dawg
March 14th, 2010
8:21 pm
Hey Ozz, spell-check this: what do you get when you combine your sexual proclivity and your mom’s favorite accessory- a virgin and a dirty douche-bag…
SLP
March 14th, 2010
8:24 pm
Mark, thanks for putting together a great contest this year. Looks much better than in years past.
Ozzy
March 14th, 2010
8:24 pm
SLP –
I’m not gonna shut up, you shut up!!
Na Na Na Na Na!
Hey – did UoG make the tournament? Just curious.
GT IS NOW A 6TH RATE HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
March 14th, 2010
8:25 pm
“EVERYBODY KNOWS” SAYS ALL NORTH AVENUE TECHNICAL STUDENTS ARE NOTHING BUT JELLO JOCKITCH. HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAH
GT IS NOW A 6TH RATE HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
March 14th, 2010
8:26 pm
OZZY IS A JELLO JOCKITCH. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH
Everybody Knows
March 14th, 2010
8:28 pm
Eddie sez:
“My favorite formula is 30-24.”
What’s that? Your daily take home pay from your construction job less the amount your three ex-wives take for child support?
eddiedawg
March 14th, 2010
8:29 pm
Everbody Knows-
Actually no. That is the score of the UGA Tech football game this year idiot. Hurts, don’t it??
Oh and we beat you in b-ball too. Loser.
Dawg
March 14th, 2010
8:32 pm
“Everbody knows” your a virgin and eat curry 4x a day….
Everybody Knows
March 14th, 2010
8:33 pm
Sorry eddie, but it doesn’t hurt at all. You see, my life doesn’t revolve around a college sports team like yours does. But, given your obvious lack of intellectual ability, I can certainly understand why you live for the good ole dawgs.
I have tons of relatives just like you, and all the people I know from high school that didn’t go to college are Dawg fans too. I’m sure you have a lot in common.
Everybody Knows
March 14th, 2010
8:34 pm
I love how the dawg fans prove their inferior intellect with every post!
mark
March 14th, 2010
8:36 pm
Way to show up in NC, GT fans! What a disgrace! I saw maybe 5 GT fans.
Engineer Patel
March 14th, 2010
8:37 pm
Any truth to the rumor that the Tech cheerleaders will wear Burkas during the tournament to honor the predominantly muslim student body….
eddiedawg
March 14th, 2010
8:38 pm
Everbody Knows-
That’s the best you can come up with? Ridiculous. I am surprised you didn’t write the tired old line about how I work for you Tech nerds. And I could have come back with how ugly your cheerleaders are.
My life doesn’t revolve around sports, but this is a sports blog, and we beat your sorry @sses in both football and b-ball this year.
Go back to your level 34 dwarf now.
eddiedawg
March 14th, 2010
8:40 pm
Everybody Knows-
This is a sports blog, isn’t it?
30-24. We continue to run this state.
Go back to your level 35 Paladin Ranger now. Loser.
Benjamin
March 14th, 2010
8:41 pm
I’ve got Syracuse winning it all. And, MB, if you’re right about Louisville vs. Duke, my bracket will explode. (Duke is the team I have being beaten by ‘Cuse in the finale.)
Holy Smoke
March 14th, 2010
8:45 pm
Tech takes it all..and ugay being #106 is serving cokes at the finals!!!!!!!!
UGA 89
March 14th, 2010
8:45 pm
What region is Georgia in? What seed did they get?
…crickets chirp ..and chirp ..and chirp
That’s what I thought
THWG
GT = 2009 ACC Champions
UGA = 2009 Shreveport Bowl …former 2008 pre-season #1
GT = 2010 Big Dance
UGA = …there go those crickets again
Holy Smoke
March 14th, 2010
8:45 pm
ugay #106 rpi…say it baby!!!!!!!!!
Holy Smoke
March 14th, 2010
8:46 pm
I would like a coke and popcorn coah fox…
AlabamaRamblinwreck
March 14th, 2010
8:46 pm
Duke ain’t making it to the final four. They are a very well-coached team without the horses to continue to win. One bad shooting game, and they are toast.
Kansas is the most well-rounded team, with West Va. probably the 2nd most well-rounded team.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
8:50 pm
Duke didn’t look like a championship team and Tech didn’t look like a 10 Seed.
Benjamin
March 14th, 2010
8:51 pm
I love watching UGA/GT fans go at it over college basketball.
Duke/UNC it a’int….
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
8:51 pm
Another 10 years of Paul Hewitt. Think I’ll just nail my Duke to a tree and fall backwards.
Burt Reynolds
March 14th, 2010
8:52 pm
I bagged alot of babes in my day, but i would never dip the magic stick in a yellow-jacket….hands down the ugliest student body this side of the mighty Mississippi…….
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
8:53 pm
Benji: you may be right, UGA/GT fans arguing about basketball is about like Duke/UNC arguing about football. Except GT actually did have a basketball program before Hewitt arrived.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
8:54 pm
Burt: your magic twig was probably dipped into every male student’s body this side of the Mississippi.
AlabamaRamblinwreck
March 14th, 2010
8:55 pm
Sorry if this a double post, but my last post did not seem to take.
GT’s 2004 run went through Milwaukee, St. Louis, and San Antonio…the exact route this year. Now, I am not saying that GT will do that again, but it is a strange coincidence.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
8:56 pm
Oh, yeah, Burt, loved that gay hillbilly flick of yours, what was it, Deliverance: The UGA Story?
Benjamin
March 14th, 2010
8:58 pm
GT: Two Final Four appearances
UGA: One…
Combined championships between the two: 0
Neither team exactly has a record of excellence, Jax.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
8:58 pm
What’s the difference between a UGA coed and the school mascot? Danged if anyone knows yet. They look, smell, eat, drink, sleep, and mate pretty much the same way….the mascot’s are a little cleaner generally, and they get their a$$es painted white before games.
FF
March 14th, 2010
9:00 pm
Nope VT had a lot to play for. Never take a bid got granted.
TechSuxPJohnsonSwallows
March 14th, 2010
9:03 pm
What do GaTech and pot have in common? They both get smoked in bowls….Good nite everybody, try not to get mugged on your way back to the nerd dorms techies…..
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:04 pm
Benjibaby, For ten years under Cremins (from 1984-1993) Tech made the NCAA 9 times, including one final four, two elite eights, and two sweet sixteens. During the Cremins era at Georgia Tech they were a close third behind your beloved Duke and UNC in the ACC, and regularly beat the heck out of both of you on the baseball and football diamonds.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:06 pm
baseball diamond and football gridiron.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:09 pm
I agree that GT does not have the history of Duke or UNC in basketball. My point is that they are also way ahead of UGA so the UGA?GT and UNC/Duke comparison is irrelevant. And Georgia Tech is way out of Duke and UNC’s league in football tradition and history. Duke and UNC have had an occasional good football team decades hence, but they have generally been whipping boys for the better teams in the conference and the country.
Victor
March 14th, 2010
9:09 pm
What happens in jacksonville in 2020?
Eric
March 14th, 2010
9:09 pm
Does anyone know when the times for the games are released?
Golden Tornado
March 14th, 2010
9:10 pm
Where is UGA in the Big Dance? West? East? South? Where? I wanna watch UGA, I tell you !
Burp Bacharach
March 14th, 2010
9:12 pm
How can you tell a Tech student is a extrovert? He looks at your shoes instead of his own during conversation.
FullMetalJacket
March 14th, 2010
9:14 pm
Another decade of Paul Hewitt? The dark cloud of apathy is settling in over ol’ alma mater. Then again, my wife is absolutely cheerful because she thinks we’ll save money when I don’t buy season tickets next year. Actually, I think I’ll find a use for it myself. Maybe I’ll travel to a couple more football away games.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:16 pm
Vic, beats me. that’s not what it means.
Lars Taint
March 14th, 2010
9:19 pm
Vic, the year 2020 in Jacksonville- a Tech student gets laid without paying for it and then the Earth implodes from laughter…..
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:24 pm
I just knew it. Hewitt blew it. They just couldn’t do it to it when you get down to it, they need to glue it to their hands, else they’ll rue it. They should love the ball, even woo it, but nope, they blew it. I’d just like to view it (the Institute’s contract)when Hewitt and agent sue it.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:26 pm
Lars, glad your favorite meal is also your last name. I don’t think a UGA student ever gets laid without getting paid for it, and neither did their mothers. If I were you, I would not use “Jacksonville” and “laughter” in the same sentence…it brings up too many memories of the Gators destroying the Pups
FullMetalJacket
March 14th, 2010
9:29 pm
Jax, you do have 20/20 vision when it comes to putting UGA fans in their place. Jacksonville and Laughter are synonymous with Georgia getting their annual butt-whipping at the hands of the Gators.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:32 pm
Before the last Fla-Ga game when the ref asked Joe Cox to call heads or tails, he blushed and giggled, “Can you give us both?”
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:34 pm
UGA hasn’t been to the NC game in football since 1980. Sure it’s only 3 decades but it’s about two millenia in UGA-7 dog years.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
9:36 pm
The only difference between Lane Kiffin and Mark Richt is their hair….wait a second, I guess there are no differences….
pocket protector crying
March 14th, 2010
9:38 pm
30-24…..it hurst so bad, worse then when momma pulled me off her teet at the age of 18…
paul johnson
March 14th, 2010
9:50 pm
JAx2020, son is that how many times you’ve beat-off since puberty….
Jay
March 14th, 2010
9:58 pm
This was supposed be a blog about the upcoming NCAA tournament, but as usual, it ended up being a GT/UGA “bitch session”. But I have to admit, you guys are hilarious. One thing for sure however, as Jax2020 alluded to, these UGA fans only have their Tech dominance to go on. They NEVER bring up anything about the Gators except when…I mean, IF they beat them. I do enjoy watching a UGA game when during every kick-off, the fans go “woof, woof. woof”. They really have evolved to standing and attempting to form syllables. Kind of brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?
Burt Reynolds
March 14th, 2010
10:02 pm
I bagged alot of babes in my day, but i would never dip the magic stick in a yellow-jacket….hands down the ugliest student body this side of the mighty Mississippi……
That goes for those ugly co-eds at UGA also. Georgia sure does make some ugly women. Go Noles!
UGA Basketball
March 14th, 2010
10:06 pm
CBI here we come!!
Media Jacket
March 14th, 2010
10:08 pm
What tournament is uga going to? It must be something big, because the AJC was talking about their coach winning “coach of the year” a few weeks ago!!!! Tech === to the Sweet 16, mark it down!
And the 2010 Champs of the CBI
March 14th, 2010
10:10 pm
South Carolina, UGA out in the first round.
hehe
March 14th, 2010
10:12 pm
ever noticed the pups have a lot of problems with addition and subtraction? they still haven’t figured out what 30 minus 24 is and post the problem all of the time. here’s some help to you mentally challenged mutts: 30-24=6. see, that wasn’t so difficult now, was it? just think you can impress all of your fellow dog fans now that you know the answer! BTW, dog is spelled “dog”, not “dawg.” you might want to choose a school next time where you can get a real education instead of getting drunk every night. “fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son!”
Shredder
March 14th, 2010
10:14 pm
Gosh that pathetic school in athens couldn’t even make the nit. What a lousy school. Shreveport and not even a nit bid. Now that is funny.
frank james
March 14th, 2010
10:15 pm
Jax2020’s mama made him go to bed. He has to catch the bus early in the morning.
frank james
March 14th, 2010
10:18 pm
Shredder – What kind of paper do you shred? Toilet paper. Because you are full of it. Quit worrying about UGA. I
UGA= Program on the skids
March 14th, 2010
10:19 pm
Why do their fans continue to talk trash? What has this school accomplished this year? One would think they would shut their yappers and show some dignity. Not these pathetic redneck losers. I guess this is what happens when a bunch of stupid high school dropout rednecks become 75% of your fanbase. Makes the decent 25% look bad.
Jay
March 14th, 2010
10:20 pm
Since football did come up for some reason, didn’t I see GT ranked #13 in the final AP poll this year? I’ve double and triple checked, but I was unable to find UGA listed ANYWHERE! I guess that “30-24″ chant didn’t carry much weight after all, except here. By the way, UGA is proud of their “Gator Stomp” in the end zone in ‘07 along with the 42-30 score, but you don’t hear much about the 2008 score of 49 to 10. Also, 30-24 this year, but no mention of the 2008 LOSS “inside the bushes” 45-42. If your going to spout off records, how about these: National Championships, GT 4…UGA 2; Conference Championships, GT 16…UGA 14. NOW…someone please help me with these picks…I need the million!
WW
March 14th, 2010
10:21 pm
I’m totally weirded out Mark. From your Elite 8 in, you made the exact same pics as me; Kansas and three #2 seeds…genius.
Shredder
March 14th, 2010
10:22 pm
Stop posting on a gt basketball blog loser. You’re school is the laughing stock of the South. You’ve accomplised NOTHING and act like you are Florida, Alabama or UNC or Duke. Your basketball program is a joke so since it’s your offseason, just go drink your bud and watch cops reruns. Just try not to hit your roommate after you get in a fight over bills.
frank james
March 14th, 2010
10:26 pm
I tell you what we have done. The school and athletic department has rallied around Chance Veazy, a UGA baseball player that was paralyzed during an accident on campus. Not only did Coach Perno and the UGA baseball team give great support to this young man, but Coach Mark Richt was one of the first to go visit him. I don’t care how many NC he wins. I hope he is the Head Football Coach for many years and also Coach Perno and Coach Fox are there for many years. They all have their priorities right.
Jake
March 14th, 2010
10:26 pm
It’s a sad fact the high unemployment in Georgia has affected uGAG fans by a 50 to 1 count than Gt. Wait til those teachers get laid off. Then it goes to 100 to 1.
frank james
March 14th, 2010
10:28 pm
Jake – How is Ellwood doing?
How bad will the 2010 football season be for the UGA?
March 14th, 2010
10:37 pm
These words will be uttered on an ajc blog within 6 months
“We did better last year with Cox”!!
Enjoy another long awful season mutts as your downward spiral continues in the two sports that matter!
Butts Wagner
March 14th, 2010
11:13 pm
That’s what makes these message boards a JOKE, and a TRAGEDY for a horrible idea….open forum….STUPID!!!
Open forums are the best, precisely because it allows all voices to be heard. If you want to debate with commentators you disagree with, you are welcome. If you want to ignore or belittle other commentators, you are free to. If you want to control all postings, go start a competing forum and it should attract all of the classiest fans if it is the best. No one is stopping you. This is one thing the AJC gets right, and I applaud them for it. It should be noted that the forums are definitely moderated as obscene posters do get blocked and the posts get removed. There are plenty of websites out there that are truly not moderated and contain truly offensive posts. And that’s fine by me, because I don’t have to visit them or pay them any patronage if I don’t want to. College kids and student athletes(and all people) aren’t dumb and know the rules. They don’t need your protection. It’s condescending to them.
History lesson
March 14th, 2010
11:32 pm
Georgia won 1 fluke football title in 1980 (30 years ago!!!), their basketball teams sucks every year, have never won any titles in basketball, but their redneck fans talk trash???? About what????
Paul in RDU
March 14th, 2010
11:34 pm
Nice post Butts. No one forces anybody to read anything on here and anybody who has been reading the boards for a while knows who’s posts to ignore.
Arthur Archibald
March 14th, 2010
11:38 pm
Mark,
Even before you I swore off Kansas. it is very hard to not pick them when you look at the talent and the coaching, but if you are betting on the winner of this tournament, it won’t be Kansas.
Art
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
11:40 pm
It was great seeing Bobby Cremins in Greensboro sitting in the stands and cheering on the Yellow Jackets. I hope Paul Hewitt is sitting next to him next year.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
11:45 pm
Frank James! This is yo momma. Get back up here and help your brother Jesse do the dishes. Otherwise, you won’t get an allowance. And quit scaring the dog down there in the basement, he thinks you’re going to violate him again.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
11:51 pm
Now Burt you starred in a movie called “Gator” and then you say Go Noles. So exactly where do you want the Noles to go? I think you meant “Moles” as in the moles all over the faces of the skin-cancered and leather skinned tan chicks in that pecker-shaped appendage some call Florida. Dadgum it. I forgot. I was supposed to be nice to the moley Noles after y’all kicked Bobby out of the office. By the way, it’s alittle known fact, but brown M&M’s are actually harvested from the mole fields on Noles’ coeds’ faces.
Jax2020
March 14th, 2010
11:53 pm
Back to basketball. Tech maybe makes the S16. The Midwest is the Region of Death so no telling who comes out of there alive, though Kansas looks like the best bet. Duke won’t make the E8, and UGA, oh yeah, that’s right, they’ll be playin’ prison ball this spring.
JesseJames
March 14th, 2010
11:54 pm
M&M’s are moles cut off of tan chicks? Now that’s funny, I don’t care how many moles you have on your face.
FullMetalJacket
March 14th, 2010
11:59 pm
I won’t eat another brown M&M as long as I live. Thanks for a thorough treatment of the tourney in Greensboro, Mark. You’ve gone above and beyond if you’ve read half of these posts. Look forward to hearing from you in Wisconsin next week. I appreciate your college basketball knowledge and insight, and just as importantly, your informed objectivity. Those Tech fans like myself who would like to see Hewitt gone need to be more moderate in our language, probably, and we need your clear perspective on the situation to help realize that we’ll probably be stuck with him for awhile. Good night and God Bless all.
FullMetalJacket
March 15th, 2010
12:02 am
Thank you, Mark for the objective and informed analyses and perspectives on the tourney in Greensboro. I look forward to your insightful and thoughtful comments from Wisconsin later this week. (No this isn’t your momma. I just think you’ve done a good job.) I won’t eat brown M&M’s ever again, but that’s not your fault.
FullMetalJacket
March 15th, 2010
12:03 am
Good night everyone and God Bless. Remember, change your clocks!!! Spring Forward one hour. Adieu.
FullMetalJacket
March 15th, 2010
12:05 am
Good night and God bless everyone. A great weekend for Georgia Tech. Remember to adjust those clocks! Spring Forward an Hour. (A special note to UGA fans here: your GT bosses won’t accept your ignorance as an excuse for showing up an hour late tomorrow.)
macrotech
March 15th, 2010
12:07 am
Frank James…. I hear ya! Don’t forget, it ONLY took Decory Bryant five years to get his settlement! (In truth, it’s a terrible price to pay…both of these young men were ‘damn good dawgs’)
RickyBobbyOnFire
March 15th, 2010
12:08 am
Good Night and bless you all. A great weekend for Georgia Tech. Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight. (UGA fans, your GT bosses won’t accept ignorance as your excuse for showing up an hour late for work tomorrow.) ‘dieu.
Set your clocks forward one hour.
March 15th, 2010
12:10 am
Do.
Set your clocks forward one hour.
March 15th, 2010
12:11 am
UGA fans, your GT bosses won’t accept ignorance as an excuse for your being an hour late tomorrow. SPRING FORWARD!
FullMetalJacket
March 15th, 2010
12:12 am
Good Night and God Bless everyone, even UGA fans. It was a great weekend for Georgia Tech.
BugKiller
March 15th, 2010
12:14 am
Uh-oh… Mark Fox and Mark Richt have righted the ships that are basketball and football in this state, returning the power and hope and right direction back where it belongs… in ATHENS… and we have petty little bugs, like the moron posting at 2237, coming out of the woodwork to tell us how bad things will be getting for us.
Kinda like how St. Simons spend 364 days throwing their little three point victory in our face.
Funny… I haven’t heard from that moron in about 5 months. Has anyone else seen him?
Poor wittle Buggies. Go back to cheering your Flag Boy while the grown-ups enjoy grown-up college sports.
Paul's Johnson
March 15th, 2010
12:20 am
What’s Coach K’s excuse this time for not making final 4?
A. There’s not any.
Smalls
March 15th, 2010
1:38 am
Tech is the terd in the punch-bowl of life…
Pluto
March 15th, 2010
6:33 am
Bye, Dawg Stephen. Miss ya!
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March 15th, 2010
7:40 am
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DCDUKE FAN
March 15th, 2010
7:44 am
Mark,
It is dismissive articles like this–and their shocking regularity–that has earned you the “Duke loather” title that you so surprisingly mentioned in one of your blogs over the weekend.
So, Duke may lose to Louisville (who, it should be noted, may lose to Cal), but to suggest that Louisville will win because a Rick Pitino coached team (does it matter that he is again coaching a team from the state of Kentucky? Surely, it does!) ALMOST (horseshoes and handgrenades) beat a Coach K Duke team 18 YEARS AGO is absolutely absurd. Even an objective observer might suggest that that is a ridiculous stretch. You are better off just saying that you dont want to pick Duke because you dont really like Duke.
While Duke has its flaws, they also are 29-5, beat your beloved Tech twice, won the ACC regular season and tourney titles, and finished the season on a run that saw them lose only one game since the end of January and that was at Maryland on senior night. This is a very good Duke team.
What you havent caught onto all season long in your many predictions of Duke losing to Tech or, really, anyone else, is that this is a demonstrably different Duke team than previous editions for two big reasons. First, they rebound very well. No more come down court, jack up a three, and then hustle back to defend a breakout. Second, they have players like Singler and Smith who can get to the rim when they need a hoop. They still shoot a lot of threes, but when they need a basket they can get it. And third–a bonus reason–they play defense as well as any team in the country.
But these things cant possibly overcome the residual effects of a close game 18 years ago. Obviously.
Gatorguy
March 15th, 2010
7:50 am
Wasn’t going to do it, but with the smack talking butt-sniffers here,
(((((((((((((((((((((41-17))))))))))))))))
Mark Fox
March 15th, 2010
8:09 am
Hey anybody hear what seed we are and what region we are going to? My cell is out of minutes.
Realist
March 15th, 2010
8:17 am
Nice to see Mark Bradley is drinking the Big East Kool-Aid. Three teams in the Final Four? Well, good luck with that.
BR
March 15th, 2010
8:34 am
How can a team like Miss. St. 23-11, make it to the SEC Championship game, beat Florida to get there and not make the NCAA tournament over Florida???? Unbelievable…you can say RPI rating all you want but the fact that they went 2-1 against Florida this season, that should say it all. THEY GOT THE SHAFT….GO UK!!!!!
my wife has some bigguns
March 15th, 2010
8:51 am
Great story..My wife looks great too..Anyone want some pics of her? Email me at georgiagal1972@hotmail.com
inbreddawg
March 15th, 2010
9:07 am
Here’s the issue…. Tech is final four team with K or Roy Williams, or any decent coach at the helm. Favors is a lottery pick, as Lawal should be. Shumpert would be with a year of good guard coaching under his belt. Peacock will wind up in the NBA like so many other unheralded Tech players (Morrow, Bynum, West). There are other very good pieces on this team. Hewitt is such a horrible X and O, practice, and game day coach, that his teams always dramatically underachieve.
Ron
March 15th, 2010
9:25 am
Eddiedawg and Ozzy- You guys go enjoy womens gymnastics and swimming for a while
Jay
March 15th, 2010
9:36 am
Don’t mean to be picky…but all of you posting about after midnight about “moving your clocks forward”, you were already an hour behind all day Sunday. You were supposed to do that before you went to bed SATURDAY NIGHT! That is, IF you went to bed Saturday night! Again, didn’t mean to be picky, but I hate incorrect information being passed out.
Chris
March 15th, 2010
10:28 am
“The Bluedevils be oustedin”?????? like your work Mark, but doesn’t anyone every proofread articles?
1oc dizzy
March 15th, 2010
10:33 am
GT won’t make it past OSU. They ended up with a horrible draw.
mutt H8ter
March 15th, 2010
11:20 am
Calling a mutt fan a Dork is an upgrade for him.
Tech Rules
March 15th, 2010
11:26 am
These ga bulldog rednecks need to get back to their trailers and move them to another trailerpark before they get foreclosed.
Pell Smells
March 15th, 2010
11:28 am
Tebow the dumbest white quarterback in college football, it’s true he was half-man/half-mastodon, a throw-back for sure, probably starts his grill by banging rocks together, they renamed the test dumberlick after his results…..
Thomas
March 15th, 2010
11:37 am
Mark…you are going to look like a genius when Wofford does make the Sweet 16…..GO TERRIERS!!!!
OSCAR
March 15th, 2010
12:51 pm
135st or close
frank
March 15th, 2010
1:23 pm
mark why didnt you pick kentucky? I am surprised.
Not an NCAA fan
March 15th, 2010
1:27 pm
Mr. Bradley:
If you haven’t already moved on to your next blog, a question about scheduling:
Why would the geniuses at the NCAA/CBS who make up the day to day schedule have Wofford playing the same time as Clemson? Or 2 California teams? Or 3 ACC teams in the same time slot?
In each case, it would have been easy to flip games to avoid any conflict, but I guess that’s too much to ask of the overpaid executives who make the decisions.
Good luck to the programming director at the Atlanta CBS affiliate trying to decide what game to show in the early time slot Friday: West Virginia-Morgan State or Temple-Cornell. CBS did a fine job scheduling for its Southern audience, which will be deprived of 2 ACC games with Tech, FSU & Duke all playing at the same time that night.
Lots of variety for Atlanta TV viewers. Nothing but SEC teams Thursday and ACC teams in 3 of the 4 time slots Friday.
Racers? Really?
March 15th, 2010
1:37 pm
Murray St. over Vandy, huh? Guess you haven’t watched the Commodores play much this year. Vandy’s size, experience, and point guard play will outlast the Racers for sure…don’t sleep on Vandy. They’ve got all the components to make a deep run.
DW
March 15th, 2010
1:44 pm
Why all the GT/UGA sniping? Yikes, both are great schools. Both have many georgeous cheerleaders. Please, everybody, move on.
Full Disclosure before reading on: I am a Tech grad and cheer for them. I also cheer for UGA.
(1) Did anyone truly believe prior to the game that GT would beat Duke? Come on, tell the truth.
Did anyone truly believe that with five minutes left in the game, GT would win? Did anyone truly believe that with 30 seconds left GT would win. Of course not.
Duke was always going to win. They would get up by twenty and hold on. Or, they would get down by 20 and come back. Or, it would be back and forth all the way and they would sink a three at the buzzer to win. If GT was on the verge of winnng the refs would make some bizarre call and throw the game to Duke.
Duke always wins these games. If Duke cannot win on merit, the refs will do their magic. This is why Duke never goes very far in the Big Dance. The first game they don’t get the officiating, they’re toast.
(2) GT fans: If you were to swap coaches, Hewitt for Krzyzewski, is there any doubt about who would win. Of course, you’d have to allow a month or so of coaching. Long enough for Hewitt to completely screw up Duke and for Krzyzewski to organize GT’s talent.
(3) It’s hard to see how GT will ever be a major BBall power again. They are a one-and-done franchise. And even when they recruit future NBA players, Hewitt will make a mess of it.
DW
Boca Baby
March 15th, 2010
2:13 pm
OK enough already. The Mountain West gets four picks and the ACC gets six. This I do not understand. With all the underlings who really do not deserve to be there I am finally ready to expand the field to at least ninety-six. Then we can do away with all the bubble babble. The expansion will not affect anyone and all the underlings will be able to prove themselves against the teams that they bump out because of the silly “create-a-conference” tie-in nonsense. It will mean only one more game played by the bottom sixty-four. Then the brackets will be pure and devoid of politics.
dawgrific
March 15th, 2010
3:19 pm
tech fans really are an all-out embarrassment, talking smack when you can hardly EVER beat UGA in ANYTHING, not even basketball. plus, you all would have been crying for hewitt’s head if they had not lucked up and beat an AWFUL unc team on thursday, but now you are in, BARELY, and you pipe up again, classic examples of sports-rooting the moron way.
dawgrific
March 15th, 2010
3:21 pm
acc getting 6 is a joke this year, and poor MS ST loses twice to KY in OT and they get shafted while an incredibly average florida team gets in, that I don’t understand, especially when florida finished pretty weakly
dawgrific
March 15th, 2010
3:23 pm
sorry DW, you are not the type of fan I am referencing in my first post
Dick Vital
March 15th, 2010
3:46 pm
Way to go Babby GT is in the house.How bout them dogs Babby. i hear there programs are on the decline,To bad Babby.
R-Tech 10
March 15th, 2010
3:49 pm
Mark it down–Tech is going to the Sweet 16! They are on fire and Hewitt’s got them really motivated right now!
I LOVE IT HOW
March 15th, 2010
5:21 pm
i love it how uga fans come on a Tech blog and run their mouths, what a disgrace to this state. I hope they really do replace uga with a robot dawg, LOL i would laugh my a$$ off hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
dawg 55
March 15th, 2010
10:24 pm
ozzy- you stink and you know that gt is going to be beat bad!